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PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

John Burroughs, the well known writer,
never does any literary work in the spring,
He then feels particularly blue.
Miss Anna Dickinson has left West
Pittston, hoping for improved health with
Il change of residence, and has located in
Honesdale for the season with her sister,
Miss Susan Dickinson, the well known
journalist.
Professor Todd, of Amherst college, re-
Gently departed for Japan to observe the
coming solar eclipse. He took with him
large telescope and other apparatus, which
ne will set up about 100 miles from Toxic.
Rev Mr. Tong, a Chinese Baptist
preacher, delivers eXhortatiOns in front of
a large pagan temple in Chinatown, San
Francisco, every Sunday afternoon. He
attracts crowds of Mongolans and dis
tributes little books ON religious subjects
printed in Chinese.
Millet, who died in 1875, painted for
thirty-one years, and during all that time
he produced only eight pictures. Said a
New York artist the other day: "Millet's
'Angelus' was sold for 800 about twenty
years ago, and it took whole year to in
duce some one to buy it. A dozen picture
buyers could now be found who would
SluCly pay SOOSOOo 1Ol lllt CANVAS
A remarkable literary partnership has
been formed between Julian Hawthorne
and Inspector Thomas Byrnes, chief of the
New York detective bureau. The result
viii be series of tales founded on fact,
for which Mr.. Byrnes will furnish the
material and Mr. Hawthorne the literary
workmanship.
lizard Money" Tom Nichol is attempt
ing to form a company for the construction
of tricycle. railroad. The cars are to be
forty-six inches wide and are to run on o
single track suspended above existing rail
road tracks Mr. Nichol claims that q
speed of 220 miles an hour can thus be
attained, and that the journey from New
York to San Francisco can be made in a
day.
Mr.. Bayless w. Hanna is to be handed
down to posterity in a great historical
painting. A Louisville Courier-Journal
writer tells that shortly after his arrival
as minister at Buenos Ayres the president
was to be installed. The troops were
drawn up in long columns and the distin-
| guished citizens and diplomats were at
| the Congress hall or palace to welcome
| the incoming chief magistrate. Just as
the president was entering the palace tC
deliver his inaugural address an ex-officer
| of the army belonging to an opposing po-
| litical party, and as the chief of a con
| spiracy, rushed upon the unsuspectinG
| ruler-elect and gave him a terrific blow
and cut on the head Mr. Hanna was one
| of the first to reach the side of the preSi
| dent and rescue him from further VIC
lence and death at the hands of the DIES
| perate assassin. The president was
| bathed, and in an hour or two read hi!
| address to the assemblage with his head
| heavily bandaged. He has since had {
| splendid oil painting executed, depicting
the tragic scene, and Mr.. Hanna is in thu
foreground of the group gathered abou
| him
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-06-29
Edwin Booths Dog Story,

Edwin Booth told Inc a curious story
about dog that's worth printing. Mrs.
Booth had n little pet dog of which she
was very fond, and Mr.. Booth was in the
habit of holding this dog on his knee, and
perhaps, during a conversation, pinching
his ear, in kind of unconscious way.
They went to Europe and left the dog at
home, and as they were away for some
time when they returned the dog did not
seem to remember them much Mr.
Booth indeed did not seem to be recognized
when he came back, and for week or so
the dog went about them in purely per-
functory way. One day he had the dog
on his knee and in the old unconscious
way began pinching his ear. The dog
looked up at him for moment, and then
jumped up and licked his hand and made
every possible demonstration of delight.
He had not recognized Mr.. Booth until
that old habit disclosed their familiar re-
lations.-San Francisco Chronicle ''Un-
dertones.
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Fashion in Canes.

''Yes, there is just as much fashion
about a cane as any article of Dress said
Fulton street dealer to me few days
ago. You see it Is the policy of the
trade to change the style of cane every
season. If this were not done our Gus
toners would carry the same cane year in
and year out A few years ago, very
light, thin canes were the proper thing,
but today the heavier the stick man
carries the heavier swell he is supposed to
be. The buck handle canes are still very
popular, but if you wish to be right up
to the latest style you should carry a
natural wood bent handle stick A mar
row silver or gold band sets off the stick.
but the uglier the stick itself, the more
fashionable it becomes. The silver and
gold handled canes are always correct,
and if you wish to make present to an
old gentleman you should give him gold
headed cane with his name engraved
upon it. Orange wood canes are very
popular just at present, and the ugly
black thorn sticks are coming into
fashion A light, straight fibered hickory
stick with round head is one of the
novelties introduced this spring and rare
imported woods are being made up into
sticks for the better class of trade -
Rambler in Brooklyn Eagle
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One of the stories of the sort which
formed the staple of subject for school
of literature now pretty well gone out OF
fashion. is told concerning the Quincy
house and it's late proprietor, Mr. J. W.
johnson. 1t is related by those sometimes
entertaining and anon prollx gosslps
who KNOW all the old stories which zeal
with their neighbors, that once Mr. John
son, then farmer up country, came 10
Boston to sell load of potatoes. Such
was his i'll luck, however, or the Guinness
of the market, that at the close OF ms
marketing he found himself without ready
money enough to pay his score at the
Quincy house, where he had taken a
room There was talk Of retaining the
farmers horses in pledge for his bill, but
johnson, who was a powerful man, went
himself to the stables and harnessed ms
team, no man daring to interfere with
him except by word. The matter terrnl-
mated for the time being in the regulation
manner of the old comedies. The farmer
departed in a fine rage, pursued by the
taunts of the employees OF the mouse,
which he answered with vow TO own
the whole establishment before he died.
From that day his one ambition seemed
to be to fulfill his boast, and TO this end
he labored and saved until-still in the
old fashioned comedy fashion-eventS had
been shaped to his will, and his pluck and
persistence were rewarded by the actual
possession of the Quincy house, from
whose doors he had once been ignominl-
ously driven because he could not pay his
bill.-Boston Cor. Providence Journal.
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rocKs rar beneath Here Is q pain 10
heaven; it is plain; it is safe. Jesus
marks it out for every man to walk In
But here is a man who says: 81 won't
walk in that path; win take my OVID
way He comes on up until he confronts
the chasm that divides his soul from
heaven. Now, his last hour has come,
and he resolves that he VIII leap that
chasm, from the heights Of earth TO the
heights of heaven. Stand back now and
give him full swing for no soul ever did
that successfully. Let him try. Jumpl
Jump! He misses the mark, and he goes
down, depth below depth, destroyed
without remedy" Mem angels devils.
what shall we call that place of awful
catastrophe? Let it be known forever as
1.-THE Sinners Death Leap"
1t is said that when Charlemagne's host
was overpowered by three armies of the
Saracens in the pass of Roncesyalles bis
warrior, Roland, in terrible earnestness,
seized a trumpet and blew it with such
terrific strength that the opposing army
reeled back with terror; but at the third
blast Of the trumpet it broke in two
see your soul fiercely assailed by all the
powers of earth and hell. / put the
mightier trumpet of the Gospel TO my lips
and | blow it three times. Blast the first:
'sNhosoever will let him come Blast
the second: ''Seek ye the Lord while he
may be found Blast the third: Now
Is the accepted time; now is the day OF sal
vatiOn.' Does not the host OF your sins
fall back But the trumpet does not, like
that Of Roland, break in two. As 1t was
handed down to us from the lips OF our
fathers we hand it down to the lips OF our
children. and tell them to sound it when
we are dead. that all the generations OF
men may know that our God is pardon
ing God, a sympathetic God, a loving God;
and that more to him than the anthems
of heaven, more to him than the throne on
which he sits, more to him than are the
temples of celestial worship IS the JOY OF
seeing the wanderer putting his hand on
the door latch Of his fathers house. Hear
it. all We nations Bread for the worst
hunger Medicine for the worst sickness.
Light for the thickest darkness. HarbOr
from the worst storm.
DR. Prime, in his book of wonderful in
terest, entitled Around the World, " de-
scribes a tomb in India of marvellous
architecture. Twenty thousand men were
twenty two years in erecting that and the
buildings around it. Standing at that
tomb, if you speak or sing, after you have
ceased you hear the echo coming from a
| height of 80 feet. 1t Is not like other
| echoes. The sound is drawn out in sweet
prolongation, as though the angels of God
were chanting on the wing.
How many souls here to day, in the
tomb of sin, will lift up the voice Of peni-
tence and prayer? If now they would cry
unto God, the echo would drop from afar
not struck from the marble cupola OF
an earthly mausoleum, but sounding back
| from the warm heart of angels, flying
with the news; for there is JOY among the
| angels of God over one sinner that repent
! eth.
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THE KENTUCKY PIONEER.
His Picturesque Hunting Costume-Tho
Weapons He Carried.

weapons He Carried.
A happy and artistic thought has pre-
served the authentic pioneer costume,
sculptured upon the state military monu-
ment at Frankfort, from models prepared
under the eye of pioneers that then sur
vived. The coat or hunting Shirt that
reached to the thigh was of coarse cloth
or preferably of well dressed deerslin that
turned rain and was not readily torn.
Around the neck and shoulders was a
fringe six inches long, not intended for
ornament alone, but supplying the strings
so often needed by hunter. The four
pockets, two on either breast, were eX-
actly placed that the use of weapons would
not be embarrassed. A belt carrying tom
ahawk and knife, passed through loops at
the back and was frightened by buckle
or thongs.
Beneath the right arm swung the bull
let pouch, and with it the powder horn.
In the former were carried the bullets,
the cotton patching" with which the
balls were surrounded in loading, and the
precious extra fiints, all inclosed and
fastened in interior pockets, lest in rapid
movement they might be lost. The pow
der horn was selected with reference to
the curve of the body, that it might lie
close and neither impede the use of the
right arm nor become entangled with the
bushes or cane. Much care was bestowed
upon its adornment and it was softened
by boiling to receive the desired shape
and preparation. At the left side hung
the tomahawk, n light Ratchet with
curved blade, useful in many ways about
the camp, and formidable weapon in
close combat. The knife lay across the
chest within ready grasp.
Over his short trousers and stockings
the hunter habitually wore deerskin leg
gings that reached to the middle of the
thigh. These were prepared of brain
dressed skins that perfectly turned the
rain and dew. Along their cutter edge
were often fringes of strings hanging for
ready use. The feet were cased in moe
casins, to which soles of rawhide were
sometimes sewed; but as a rule the soft
elkskin was preferred, for the face of the
land was as yet unbroken turf or forest
mold, soft and springy to the tread. Stone
cropped out as cultivation disturbed the
soil in after years. A cap, brought from
the eastern settlements, or made of the
skin of a coon or panther, completed the
costume of the original hunter of Ken
tucky.-Harper' Magazine
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A Little Girls Long Journey.

There arrived in San Francisco the other
day a little German girl who Travelled
alone from her native land. Her name is
Cresencia Schwartz, and her age is IL
years. Without understanding one word
of English this little Teutonic maiden
traversed the broad Atlantic ocean and
crossed the American continent without a
companion, trusting solely for her safety
during her 1000 miles journey on the
kindness of the people whom she CHANGED
to meet. Her widowed mother in Ger
many was too poor to support her, and,
an uncle in San Francisco having offered
to adopt her, the mother prepared little
baggage, gave kiss of farewell, and dis
patched her daughter on the long journey,
which occupied two months.-San Fran
cisco Call.
In a garden at Woodland, Cal, is grow
ing clump of wheat which is a curiosity
because of the fact that 161 stalks have
spread from one kernel of wheat
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-06-29
Tied Their Tails Together.

A small boy seeing two Chinese looking
in a Kearney street shop window the other
day slipped up behind them and tied their
cues together. When they learned what
had happened they rushed after their
tormentor, who stood grinning from be-
hind telegraph pole, but as they took
opposite sides of the pole in passing they
were brought up with jerk that threw
them down, and it was not until the
services of police officer had been secured
that they could take their several ways
amid an amused throng Of spectators.
San Francisco Examiner.
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Town Lots in California.

There are lots enough staked out in
southern California to provide for the en-
tire population of the city of New York
apportioned at the rate of three persons
to the lot 1t would take more than the
combined capital of all the banks of New
York to buy up these lots. They have a
story down there about lumber which il
Illustrates the craze. 1t is said that gen.
tleman went to a lumber dealer and de-
sired enough lumber to build house. He
was looked upon with compassion by the
dealer, who said to him that there was no
lumber for sale. When he asked for an
explanation the dealer replied to him as if
he had compassion for his ignorance, that
1.-THE lumber was all sold for stakes for
town lots. THE Argonaut
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A Comprehensire Comnanv

A powerful company of California and
Chicago capitalists was recently incor-
porated at Phoenix, A. T. The business
of the company is very comprehensive,
and includes the acquiring and taking of
water and lands in almost every possible
way, the handling of almost all kinds of
personal property, real and mixed prop
erty, the purchase of capital stock, fran
chise books of corporations, maintaining
and operating an electric apparatus for
lighting purposes, driving machinery, ETC.,
and carrying ON the business of banking,
merchandising and common carriers.
Capital stock, SIS, 900, 900, in so, 600 shares,
the par value of a share being 800
Chicago Times.
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TRUST DEEDS.

FORM NO. ITO BE EXECUTED AT
TER crops OF Corn and Cotton are planted and
the seed have terminated, and effectual 10 secure
anteeedent debts. Can be used any time if prop
erty other than crops is conveyed by making the
necessary alterations and additions This is the
fern heretofore generally used by merchants in
Kinds county, with necessary amendments and
additions by leading Attorney of Jackson TO meet
all requirements.
FORM No. 2-For Real Estate or other Property
prepa red by leading Attorney of Viek.burg a
brief but comprehensive form; can be used by
merchants advancing supplies others loaning
money on real estate or other property.
FORM No. 3-For Real Estate
Fifty cents per quire; Sl.O0 for fifty; g.. 90 per
hundred-by mail. Special discount on larger or
ders. Address
THE CLARION, JACKSON, MISS
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A MYSTERIOUS STONE FORT.
One of Tennessee's Antiquities-Work {
the Mound Builders.

One of Tennessee's Antiquities-Work of
the Mound Builders.
There is nothing in Tennessee, or in the
south, whose antiquity is so mysterious
and entirely beyond the domain of decent
speculation as the old stone fort, which is
about mile and a half below the town
of Manchester. The two prongs of Durk
river come within, say, two hundred
yards Of each other, and then widen out,
making q territory of perhaps one thou
sand acres in the forks of the river, and
below the Narrows. At the Narrows the
fort commences by a stone wall, now
covered with earth, running frsm one
river to the other, and the walls are built
along the banks Of both rivers down to a
point where a canal had been cut from
one river to the other. There a wall is
made from one river to the other, perhaps
a quarter of mile. On the outside of
this wall is a hollow, and in this hollow
is the sign of the canal or cut, evidently
intended to protect the fort by both the
wall and the canal.
From the upper to the lower wall at
places there are high bluffs on both rivers.
Wherever this bluff-precipitou found
there is no wall, but wherever there is no
natural barrier the wall is built. The en-
trance to the fort was at the upper end,
and the gateways show that the builders
were doing their work intelligently. The
entrance is by n narrow passway, with
walls on either side and offsets so as to
prevent the enemy on the outside from
having direct entrance for themselves,
and so as to protect those on the inside
from missiles from the outside. The fort
contains forty-seven acres, and is, or was
when the writer first saw it, heavily tim
bered, many of the trees of large size
growing on top of the walls.
Col. Sam Murray, who settled there
about 1903, cut one of the trees from the
top of the wall and found it to be SOC
years old. One mile up the river from
the fort is an immense mound-the largest
one, perhaps, i'll the country-making il
probable that the fort was built by the
mound builders. Beyond this nobody
knows anything about it. Col. Murray
who was a man of high intelligence
claimed to have conferred with the Indians
of different tribes, but none of them could
give him any account of it, either by ira
dition or otherwise. This fort is one OF
the many evidences that in this country
at some remote period, there was q race
of people of more stability and intelli
gence than the rowing Indians which the
first settlers found.-Nashville American
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Deeds Liens !-CentracS

rINHE FOL- OWING BLANKS ARE hkfl d.
i ularly in stock at THE CLARION OFFICE.
No. Merchants Deed OF Trust-on real s'''''i
personal property or crops. ,altv
" Diced of Trust on real estate OF PeiS''
4" 3-Deed of Trust-on real estate.
q deed of Trust-to secure rent liz
=" 5-Deed of Trust-to secure rent ana supp
" 5I%-General Lien for Land Rent
&" 6-Centract for share OF Crop.
" Warranty Deed as per Code 1881
" S-Warrant Deed-a fuller form.
d" 9-Warranty Deed, with Vendors lieh'
Z" 10 Quit Claim Deed.
" 11-Bond for Title. .hiiss,
" i2-Bond, adapted to any contract or Ooiis''
ton.
" 13-Bond for Public Officers.
" l6-General Lease.
" lS-Tax Collectors Deed.
" 19-Sheriff7s Deed, under Execution.
Z" 20-Indemnifying Bond 10 Sheriff.
Deeds by No on the left Price: SOC Pc, ga Ia
90 for fifty; $500 per hundred BY mAA'
pau Address. THE CLARION,
jackson. MIS-
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For Rent in Oxford. Miss.

1iHE DESIRABLE RESIDENCE FORMERLY
Il occupied by Chancellor Stewart. 1t is on Uni
verslIy Avenue, about three minutes walk from
the University. Has eleven rooms. out houses
garden and pasture lot. Possession given at once
Win privilege OF continuous rent For terms etc
apply to CHARLES ROBERTs 49,
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IA TY-FoUR pages containg Forms for Justices
OF the Peace, Merchants, Planters, and Business
Men generally, Directory of Courts, Railroad Dis
lance Tables, Post Offices, and other useful data
Price, by mail, s15o. Address
CLARION OFFICE. JACKSON Miss
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OH Tor a closer walk with God.
A calm and heavenly frame,
A light to shine upon the road
That IaaiS ma N fba 7 o,,h

] am sure that there are some here who
at some time have been hit by the gospel
arrow. You felt the wound of that CON
viction and you plunged into the world
deeper, just as the stag, when the hounds
are after it, plunges into Scroon lake, ex-
pecting in that way to escape. Jesus
Christ is on your track to-day, impenitent
mani not in wrath, but in mercy. o We
chased and painting souls, here is the
stream of Gods mercy and salvation,
where You may cool your thirst Stop
that chase of sin today. By the red foun-
tain that lie ped from the heart of my
Lord, bid you stop. There is mercy for
you mercy that pardons; mercy that
heals; everlasting mercy Is there in all
this house any one who can refuse the
offer that comes from the heart of the
dying Son of God?
There is q forest in Germany, a place
they call the deer leap''-tyo craqs
about eighteen yards apart, besween a
fearful chasm. This is called the deer
leap because once a hunter was on the
track Of deer; it came to one of these
crags; there was no escape for it from the
pursuit Of the hunter, and In utter de-
6pair it gathered itself up, and i'm the
death agony attempted to jump across.
Of course. it fell. and was dashed on the
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